Chapter 31: Frost Descent, Wild Polygonatum Extraction

Chapter 31: Frost Descent, Wild Polygonatum Extraction

Li Xiang now has 340 achievement points, so he spent 100 points to redeem the "mutant creature identification function", and then he had a lot of fun playing with it, identifying all the cats, dogs, chickens and ducks in his home.

But there is a flaw, which is that it can only identify organisms within a ten-meter range around it.

"Congratulations to the host for discovering a second-level golden rooster."

Following the system's prompt, Li Xiang's eyes fell on a large rooster with colorful feathers in his home.

This chicken, with its red crown and colorful feathers, crows loudest and clearest every morning, and walks majestically. It is indeed a good chicken! In fact, Li Xiang wanted to eat it last time, thinking that its meat must be quite chewy, but now he naturally couldn't bear to eat it.

Although this chicken is an ordinary chicken now, if it can survive until the end of the world, it will transform into a chicken demon. The second-level strength will make it the backbone and elite no matter which force it is in.

After all, not everyone is qualified to set foot in the extraordinary.

Becoming a transcendent, even at the first level, is a precious talent. As for the loyal chicken demon, it is even more rare to be a "house servant", "spiritual pet" or "beast master".

How can a chicken that you raise from a puppy not be loyal?

If you are not faithful, you will end up in the pot.

To Li Xiang's regret, out of the dozen or so chickens, only this one had potential. The rest, including the duck, were just mediocre.

"It's a pity to kill the old hen last time. If it had been kept and bred with this rooster, it might have produced a few more extraordinary chickens."

But since he had already eaten it, Li Xiang didn’t take it too seriously. It tasted so good at the time that it almost made him cry.

Then he went to identify the two dogs.

Then, I felt very sorry.

Erhuang will achieve the fourth level in the future, but Dahuang is just an ordinary product.

You know, he likes Dahuang and Erhuang equally, and even prefers Dahuang a little more, because he thinks that the two dogs are equally smart, but in the past performance, Dahuang was often the leader and the big brother.

Then he ran to identify the old mother cat and the five kittens.

This time, Li Xiang was completely stunned.

Because, suddenly, three people with extraordinary potential appeared.

The old cat is an ordinary creature, but among the five little ones, Lihua and Sanhua both have the potential to reach the fourth level, and there is another one that will actually become a sixth-level beast in the future.

Level 6, that's the middle level of transcendence. In my previous life, I tried my best, but because of limited opportunities, I only reached level 5.

And this sixth-level potential monster turned out to be the cute Xiaobai!

The most mischievous cow cat, on the other hand, is just an ordinary cat, "indistinguishable from the other cats."

Oh my god, Xiaobai, you are going to change your fate. You are so stupid, being bullied every day, and you actually... You can't judge a cat by its appearance.

Li Xiang decided to be nicer to Xiaobai in the future. When it grows up a little, they can eat and live together and cultivate feelings from an early age.

Of course, Xiaolihua and Xiaosanhua are also rare and potential beasts, and Li Xiang will not treat them unfairly.

I walked around the entire village again, but unfortunately, I didn't find it.

"It seems necessary to go into the mountains again." Li Xiang was anxious to collect first-level exotic herbs to give to his grandparents, and was also anxious to earn back the 100 achievement points he had just spent, so he put a Gaomi knife on his waist, held a shovel in his hand, and carried a large bamboo basket on his back, and went deep into the autumn forest again.

Autumn is the season of harvest. Li Xiang will definitely not go into the mountains to look for potential exotic animals, so he can only rely on luck. He must do some real work.

He held up the phone stand, turned on the shooting mode, and went into the mountains to dig Polygonatum sibiricum.

Huangjing, also known as mountain ginger, tiger ginger, and chicken head ginseng, is a very good Chinese medicine that replenishes qi and nourishes yin, strengthens the spleen, moistens the lungs, and benefits the kidneys. "Baopuzi" records: "In the past, people used this product to obtain the qi of Kun soil and the essence of heaven and earth, hence the name."

The best time to dig Polygonatum sibiricum in the mountains is autumn, specifically from October to December, and the best time is after the frost in autumn. At this time, the nutritional value of Polygonatum sibiricum is in the roots, which is more suitable for digging and has higher nutritional value.

When picking mushrooms before, Li Xiang noticed a lot of wild Polygonatum, but the best time to pick them had not yet arrived, so he "kept silent".

And today happens to be the day of frost, the weather is sunny, it is a good day.

Of course, if I come across suitable mushrooms, I will definitely pick them up. But I have swept through several times before, and I think there are no valuable mushrooms for the time being. Even if there are, the quantity is not large. I can only pick up some cheap ones and eat them myself.

The price of wild Polygonatum sibiricum is between 30 and 70 yuan per kilogram, but if the Polygonatum sibiricum undergoes the "nine steaming and nine drying" process, the price can be sold for five to six hundred yuan per kilogram.

Li Xiang felt that with his skills, it should be easy for him to dig up one or two hundred kilograms of fresh goods.

Digging Polygonatum sibiricum is actually a technical job, especially since there are many plants that are similar to Polygonatum sibiricum, such as Polygonatum odoratum.

Some people go into the mountains to dig for Polygonatum sibiricum, and after digging for a long time with great enthusiasm, they find that it is not Polygonatum sibiricum at all. Then they sell it, but ordinary people don’t recognize it anyway.

So it goes without saying what the cheap Polygonatum sibiricum on the market that has been "steamed and dried nine times" is.

Of course Li Xiang would not do such a thing. He recorded as he walked, found many similar plants, and taught everyone how to distinguish them.

Then, he came across a very small Polygonatum sibiricum, so he leaned over and thrust his phone towards it.

"Everyone, look, the surface part of this Polygonatum sibiricum is only more than ten centimeters high. It is obviously a seedling that has just sprouted not long ago and is not suitable for harvesting." Li Xiang stood up and changed the subject.

"However, Polygonatum sibiricum, like bamboo, grows in large pieces. Since a small Polygonatum sibiricum has appeared, there must be a big one nearby!"

"In addition, Polygonatum sibiricum likes shade and grows mostly in cool places, such as in bamboo forests, under rock walls, on northern hillsides, etc. Let's go around this big rock and take a look. Maybe we'll find a surprise."

Sure enough, when Li Xiang took a few steps and came behind the big rock, he saw many tall Polygonatum sibiricum plants, some of which were several dozen centimeters tall and some were more than two meters tall.

"Let's start with the tallest one!" Li Xiang pointed with his finger and started digging. Soon, he got a large cluster of Polygonatum rhizomes.

"Wow, what a fruitful harvest." Li Xiang took the Polygonatum sibiricum to his mobile phone and took a close-up photo to show it.

In fact, he had passed by this place when picking mushrooms before, and now he just pretended to discover it for the first time for the purpose of taking pictures.

But the Polygonatum sibiricum is indeed real wild Polygonatum sibiricum, freshly dug out of the ground with fresh soil.

Li Xiang cut off the main part, removed the head and tail, and threw it into the backpack.

We walked and took pictures all the way, and soon the backpack was full.

Unconsciously, Li Xiang came to a special place. In the distance, there were several graves.

He looked at it from a distance, his eyes turned red, and he ended the shooting mode.

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(End of this chapter)

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